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Ní Chuilín slams housing proposals

The only
way of resolving the housing crisis is through a comprehensive building
programme and dealing with the inequality in allocations, Sinn Féin housing
Spokesperson Carál Ní Chuilín has said.

The North
Belfast MLA was commenting after a Westminster committee warned that the British
Chancellor’s plans to address the lack of housing will fail.

“We have been
warning for some time that the British Government’s proposals will not deal with
the housing crisis and now even a Westminster select committee is saying the same
thing,” Carál Ní Chuilín commented.

“Tory policy is exacerbating the crisis not easing it because austerity
cuts are undermining public services and restricting the provision of social
housing.

“What we need are proposals that provide for a comprehensive social housing
build programme and concrete measures to deal with the historic legacy of
housing inequality.”